Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
The shadows are as important as the light.
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people
You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.
We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.