This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.

when exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

It's great to be young and a Yankee!