As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

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.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.