Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
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.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
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 are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
A lie never lives to be old.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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.