Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Become vision itself.

If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.