You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.