The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

The journey has to be based on passion. Put yourself in something you love to do. If you love what you do you're able to dedicate yourself, overcome obstacles.