You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.
Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long.
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
God gives the milk but not the pail.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it.
I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
A true friend is the best possession.