The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough..
Small is beautiful.
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
The thing I fear most is fear.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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.
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.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
An actor is exactly as big as his imagination.
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.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
The decalogue is too short in comparison to means of making sins.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
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.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
