Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.