You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.