The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes.

Make your optimism come true!

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

I'm not an expert in it, but it seems to me that you have to let the market forces go their course.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.