I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Be that self which one truly is.
Freedom lies in being bold.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
Dare to risk public criticism.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
I am not now That which I have been.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.