If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.