Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
A lie never lives to be old.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.