The best security for old age: respect your children.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.