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

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

Once you label me you negate me.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.