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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."
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"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit."

"Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility."

"I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living."

"If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite."

"Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it'll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that's the job your mind gave you!"

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

"We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good."

"If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself."

"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."

"True deliverers identify themselves with the sins of their people, they take the blames upon themselves."
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"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."


"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."


"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."


"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."


"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."


"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."
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