George Herbert

Man is what he believes.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Every mile is two in winter.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Living well is the best revenge.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.