...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.