Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.