One should use common words to say uncommon things.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.

He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

If I can sing, I still am free.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.