Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
To me, faith means not worrying.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.