A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.