Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

The time is always now to declare your freedom!"..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will