To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

The key to greatness is knowing when to take the hand that has been offered.

The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.

I love you. They can't take it away.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.