A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.