There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.