Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Fill your life with light!

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

I'm tired of going to an empty bedroom every night. I wish I had a girl I could cuddle with

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

Right now counts forever.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.