Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

i want so much to touch youwhere my hands cannot.

Suffering tests the strength of faith.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

I don't want to be without God's blessings.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.