For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

How my adventures become your sins?

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.