Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy