"First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously."

"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy."

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."

"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."

"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

"We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started."

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself."

"What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something."

"We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so."

"If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world."

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

"I told you I was sick."

"Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body"

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

"In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage."

"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."