The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Time the devourer of everything.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.