Keywords famous quotes

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!

Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge....

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

We're all as bureaucrats, or people who are - who work for state, every year we present our declaration of our incomes and expenditures to our special organs who control and double-control the declaration.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.