Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.

I think everybody should like everybody.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!