My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

I am not now That which I have been.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.