I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.