I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

Life is so much more about the experience than the destination. One will waste their life if they are waiting to reach a goal to celebrate. Still, it happens all the time.

Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on anti

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Often things are as bad as they seem.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.