I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
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.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
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.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.