Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
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.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.