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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.
In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Our common language is…English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
