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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.