I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Freedom is from within.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

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