Nothing is black or white.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.