It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

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.

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

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.