A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen.

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.