The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.