If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Born to lose. Live to win.

G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.

You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.