The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

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.

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

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.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.