America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.