I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
The public is very fickle, as I was saying to my cabdriver, Gerald Ford.
The essence of man is imperfection.
Men must try and try again.
The year's in the wane; There is nothing adoring; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
History is a vast early warning system.
Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
I take all knowledge to be my province.
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.