Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.

The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .