I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Humility is attentive patience.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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

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

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.