You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.