At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
