Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

To create is to live twice.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

The one who is not being born is dying.

Every need got an ego to feed.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee.

People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.