Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.