I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.