People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.