History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

One Decision Makes All the Difference

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

The difficult opponent is the best.

A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

Drop that zero and get with the hero!

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.