What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

You know, Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head.

Your past is my Future.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.