The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
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.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
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.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Freedom is from within.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open