The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive.

Subversion is what I do.

As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.