There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don’t have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, — and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
The Eyes of other People are the Eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine Clothes, fine Houses nor Fine Furniture.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
People who lead a solitary existence always have something in their hearts which they are eager to talk about.[У людей, живущих одиноко, всегда бывает на душе что-нибудь такое, что они охотно бы рассказали.]
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.