A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.