Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. 

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. 

The best way to solve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.