The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.