The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.