Quotes

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.