Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.

The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.

Living safely is dangerous.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.