I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but al...
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
