by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

What I would give right now, to feel nothing.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.