Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

The flame of fire burns within.

No matter how big a company is, one has to always look at business basics.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

We are many, but are we much?

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.