No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
That which costs little is less valued.
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.