The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
