A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

There either is a god or there is not

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.