Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.