There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ?

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.

Lovers remember everything. [Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.