No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

The future ain't what it used to be.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.