The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
The thing I fear most is fear.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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.
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough..
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
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.
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.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
My house is my castle.
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
Small is beautiful.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear.
