Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Love hurts because it holds hearts

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.