The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Anything is possible if you're true to yourself.

A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.