Love of books is the best of all.

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.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.