One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.