One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I say to mankind, be not curious about god. for I, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - I hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.