You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Best way to learn is by reflecting and emulating.

This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.