I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. 

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

The speaker cut short his speech not because he was asked to, but because he suddenly realised that he had nothing more to say!

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

There was a time when we could find jokers only in circus. Now we can find them everywhere.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Let your life lightly dance on the edge of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.