All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life

Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it. It is marked “TODAY”.

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.