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.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Once you label me you negate me.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.