When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

If you take care off your employees, they will take care of your business

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Stop letting others decide your life for you. You only have a lifetime to live on earth. Make it count by all means. Stop hiding in the background. Let the world know what you are truly made of.

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.