We must be doing something to be happy.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

If you need to know courage then you personally is the courage you discovered by yourself, try harder things and it will show up.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.