The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
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.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
