Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.