We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

I see you young and soft oh little baby Little feet, little hands, little baby One year of crying and the words creep up inside Creep into your mind So much to say

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.