Humility is attentive patience.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
A jug fills drop by drop.
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.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.