Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood. . . .

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

When you read, ' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

No decision in the world outlives the time, place, and person’s constituents on the basis of which it was made.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.