When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The sound of water says what I think.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God. And when we’re not thinking with love, since only love is real, then we’re actually not thinking at all. We’re hallucinating.

We think we’re powerful because of what we’ve achieved rather than because of what we are.

Because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, we change the world by changing the thoughts we think about the world.

When we think we have things already figured out, we’re not teachable. Genuine insight can’t dawn on a mind that’s not open to receive it.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

“the appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.”

“Not all creatures can become as great as they think.”

“AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, "The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.”

“I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.”

“Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.”