All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
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.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
