Everything changes but change

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .

I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.