The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.

Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.