Your destiny is fulfilled as you invest in the destinies of others.

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

God is God, and I'm not.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.