When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

My mission is to identify the purpose of my coming on this planet and having identified it, to complete and achieve it

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.