Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
The day of individual happiness has passed
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.