All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
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.
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.
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.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.