It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Conduct, not speech, flowery

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.