How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
