The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

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.

God's given me a fierce passion for teaching girl's my age and younger, maybe even older, about purity, and the fact that it is not a physical thing but in fact that of the heart.

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

Everything you want in life is just one step away

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

I think it's important to come from a humble place.