There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

I love to play real people... good people that I know the audience will get behind. It's the good people in the world that I gravitate to.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Being yourself doesn’t attract women... being your most attractive self, does.