The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
Nothing is black or white.
Every man's memory is his private literature.