I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?