I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
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.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
A good liar must have a good memory.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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.
