Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait.

Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can speak.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.

A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.