“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Life is one darn thing after another.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

I just took some ecstasy, ain’t no tellin’ what the side effects could be.

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He’s very young spirited, and it’s always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I’ve learned, That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.