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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard; how about giving me $50,000 instead to start a little business?' I might think that was a good idea.
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by…religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Since I came to the White House I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it….Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
What lies behind us and what lies before us, Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have.
