To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.