Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Riches make cowards of us.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.

It's quite nice to have something where you can be a bit naughty if you have a twinkle in your eye and you can get away with things a bit more and that's what 'The Choice' is about.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

Why do [TEMPLES] beautify and shine? Because as the scriptures say, 'truth shineth,' and temples contain truth and eternal purpose; so do you.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.