Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.