“The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.”

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…

Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I’d be in this position. It’s a dream and I don’t even know if I dreamed this big.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

If i’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.

I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’

For years the league has thought I’ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.