The future influences the present just as much as the past.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
There are two things necessary to salvation money and gunpowder.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.
I'm a problem-solver.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
With my wife camille’s help, I took to social networking. I’m working with the computers.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The march of the human mind is slow.