One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Observe all men, thyself most.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.