I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Genius is sorrow's child.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

A lie never lives to be old.

A person preaches well that lives well.