Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.

Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.