Quotes

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”

“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.”

“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”

“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.”

“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”