We often talk too much & listen too little. The surer route to winning a friend isn't to convince them that you're right, but that you care what they think.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

The things I call crisis and all the things that were coming after me are all coming to serve the purpose of God in my life.

Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.