Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.