Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
