Once you label me you negate me.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

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

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.