The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

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All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you