The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

As the master so the valet.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.".

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait-- Where Beauty watched to imitate.