Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Effective action is always unjust.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I am not now That which I have been.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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.