He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
She sauntered in the August rain With an endless rhythm of pain, With a desire to run To reach his arms that warmed her, Like sweet summer's sun!
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.
Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.