Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go