Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.

Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager