True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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.
I am not now That which I have been.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Be that self which one truly is.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.