I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.