Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.

If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.