Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

The power of the heart is the power of Life.

Race designation is a political designation.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.