Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Leadership. Sees the future and knows the past.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

Embrace each new day with great expectations.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.