"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

"Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

"It is a essential truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts."

"The art of living is discovering that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?"

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"