The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.