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.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Freedom is from within.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
A lie never lives to be old.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.