Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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The Dog and the Shadow A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow, and his own, because the stream swept it away.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.

The mind is just another muscle.

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Zealous, not modest.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.