We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
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.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
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.
