Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
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.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
