Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Boards don't hit back.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.