Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.