“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.”

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

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…

We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.