To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Boards don't hit back.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.