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

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

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.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.