Their Quotes

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.