When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. 

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Politicians just do an aerial survey of disasters. Genuine leaders carry out relief measures on ground zero.