Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Common sense is not so common.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

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

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Dare to risk public criticism.