Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

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.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Nature works in parallel ways.

All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.