You should always assert your rights lest somebody should wrong you unnecessarily.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. 

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. 

Mickey Mouse is, to be, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.Mickey Mouse is, to be, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Forget the past.