You know what I'm doing for Easter? I'm gonna be hanging with my Peeps.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax. . . And the harvest was what I saw.
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.