Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

I'm done with those

You can't lead without taking risk.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.