A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!

Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").

Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Don't hate what you don't understand!

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.