To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.