Words that weep, and tears that speak.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."
Acting is happy agony.
Judge Crater - please call your office.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.
Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.
Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Judas needed the money for a sick friend.