I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open. The crowd cheers.

It was a respectful ceremony and I stood in respect throughout it.

I’m passionate about real estate and that’s what works for me.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

You can’t tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don’t mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don’t leave anything over.

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.