A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.
God helps those who help themselves.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
Genius [...] has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble. [...] It might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
The lottery: a tax on people who flunked math.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.
Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions.
Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
Small is beautiful.
Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear.
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough..
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
The thing I fear most is fear.
We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
