Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, “Two and two still make four, and you can’t keep humankind down for long.”
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
Financial storm definitely passed.
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.