Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
