Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

People are like wet fabrics: You can never know their true color unless you squeeze them dry.

Sudden friendship sure repentance.

My clothes are for the international jet set. They are very much for the red carpet.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.