Golf is a good walk spoiled.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Common sense needs to be more common.
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.
Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
