The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.