The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery

We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.

The future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived.

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

You say 'believe in your dreams', I say that I believe in YOU.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.