Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.