The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

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.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

You can do more, you can always do more.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.