"Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."

"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do."

"There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative."

"A lawyer who insists on representing himself has a fool for a client."

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

"When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out."

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are."

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."