You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
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.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.