Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.