"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."

"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win."

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

"We are who people think we are."

"Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."

"He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves."

"No man is demolished but by himself."

"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."

"Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself."

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."