The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.

Every challenge that comes your way is an opportunity for you to do something remarkable.

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.