The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy at what price they sell.
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
I’m not a politician.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
We live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
Kings are the slaves of history.
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while you don’t do things right once in a while you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
The more you know the less you understand.
