A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.