The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

There's nothing sweet about me, love, " he said.

Malady of mortality

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.