I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
I am not now That which I have been.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.