The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.