The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.