a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong.

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.