I know you even under the skin.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

God allows difficulties, inconveniences, trials, and even suffering to come our way for a specific purpose: They help develop the right attitude for the growth of patience.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

I am made of light; I am made of stars.