In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

If we as people view everone who's not a part of our group as the monster, and we treat them like the monster - they either become the monster, or we're actually the monster.

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.