I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
A person preaches well that lives well.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
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.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.