Their Quotes

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.