I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

If you don't love, you can't live; if you don't live, you can't love.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire, it puts out the little, it kindles the great.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

The ship is safer in the harbour, but it is not meant for that.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.