You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

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 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 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.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Technical expertise is only a tiny portion of what it takes to be a successful employee and, particularly, a successful leader.

Persistence and perseverance – these are the two most important characteristics a startup founder should have.

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

The beauty of balance is that I can do it all and not feel bad about my choices, because every moment is an opportunity to start all over again

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.