Allen Klein

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

A man can’t ‘just be friends’ with another woman. Period.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.