If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Power doesn’t corrupt people; people corrupt power.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
All diseases run into one, old age.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
