You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.