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.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

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

Humility is attentive patience.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.