Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

The medicine increases the disease.

My house was clean last week.Sorry you missed it.

O my prophetic soul! My uncle?

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. on the Diane Rehm Show.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly,--if it be wrong leave it undone.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.