The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

I was born a character actor.

Life is too short because we die.

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

The essence of information...is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.