If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

I am happiest when I am alone.

Insecurities are like mosquitos, you try to get rid of them but they still come back.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.