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

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

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.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

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.?

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.