If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

You discuss philosophy about what you read but never really live the wisdom.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.