When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

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.

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Effective action is always unjust.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Give up trying to make me give up

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Once you label me you negate me.

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.