The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

I think communication is key, too. You're answering all the questions. Thank you. I'll just sit back here.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.