I dote on his very absence.

If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

Progress cannot be organized.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

there are lies, damned lies and statistics.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.