An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.