"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."

"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."

"Who's Virginia?"

"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."

"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order."

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land."

"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion."