If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

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.

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

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 left her because of you, not for you.

It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.