You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.

Remember God loves you, even when its hard to love yourself.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.

Value investing is risk aversion.