There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.