I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.