“London is a roost for every bird.”

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Silence is the mother of truth.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.