Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

Oh don’t be such a fuss pot, ” said the fairy, “or I’ll call you Fussy Pants, instead of Silly Pants!

We took our food order to go, in greasy paper bags, and walked across Columbus Circle to Central Park. He helped me up the giant prehistoric-looking rock just off the playground.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.

Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

Fans are almost always nice. I really find that they rarely come on too strong.

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.