Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

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 only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.

Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

I'm not likely to forget someone slapping my butt with a big piece of wood.

And with the smallest intake of breath he had painted me a picture. Ash that stung your tongue like poisoned snowflakes and breaths of air that burned your lungs without fire

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

Nothing is more thrilling than winning a match for your team.