I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

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.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Nothing is black or white.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

What is to give light must endure burning.

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.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

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.