I want to put a ding in the universe.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

A lie never lives to be old.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.