Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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?

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Each soul is potentially divine.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

A lie never lives to be old.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Effective action is always unjust.