Matters change and morals change; men remain.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

The path of light is the quest for knowledge.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.