Humility is attentive patience.
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.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Thought is free.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Boards don't hit back.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.