The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

A man's a man for a' that!

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

The Bill of Rights -- The Original Contract With America. Accept no substitutes. Beware of imitations. Insist on the genuine articles.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We only part to meet again.