I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.