“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.”

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

True invective requires great imagination.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Happiness is speechless.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that’s the real draw for me.

The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

I’ve got a nice collection of paintings – a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that’s like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It’s almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There’s a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you – unless you actually fail the test?

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.