I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius