Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.

A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul...

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.