Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.