No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers.
Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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.
Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Small is beautiful.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
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.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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.
Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
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 fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough..
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.
