Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them..

The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to stea….

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours..

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing..

I could live a week on one good compliment..

Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut)..

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of ….

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it..

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that duri….

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse..

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift….

The eyes are the amulets of the mind..

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall on….

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of….

A covetous man's penny is a stone..

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied..

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's..

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest..

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates..

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has….

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization ….