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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.