Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.
The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretzel
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.