Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

Much is published, but little printed.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there’s nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.