In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
