The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.