I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Answer a fool according to his folly.
They know enough who know how to learn.
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice.
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.