Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

A jug fills drop by drop.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.