He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Genius is sorrow's child.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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

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.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

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

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

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.