Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?""You may ask.""How old are you?""It's none of your business

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

Do Americans want the government to micromanage every aspect of our lives? President Ronald Reagan certainly didn't.

It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Film has always been where my heart is.