None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell

There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.