The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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.

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.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The future ain't what it used to be.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Fashion changes, but style endures.