"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

"When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."