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.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Humility is attentive patience.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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.
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 something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
