Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

The slow compromise or even surrender of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.