Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

We travel to new places, with every book, we read.

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.