Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

I can't promise to becalm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

I'm not an urban person.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.