Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Thought is free.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The day of individual happiness has passed

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.