Boards don't hit back.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

Thought is free.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Effective action is always unjust.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Humility is attentive patience.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.