Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
The happiest times of humanity are the blank pages in the book of history.
A planned life is a dead life.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
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.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent.
How happy would many people live if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.
Appeal: v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
