The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
A person preaches well that lives well.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.