Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.