I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
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.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
