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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
I’m not a category of a person. I’m the same person, for my whole life. I like this thing this time, and I like this thing that time.
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.