It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.

I focus my energies more so on staying original.