In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.