Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

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

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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.

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

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

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

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.