Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor.
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.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Some people hate waking up and getting out of bed. I enjoy it. I do it three or four times a day.
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
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.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability.
Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow!
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
The decalogue is too short in comparison to means of making sins.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
