It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

George Eliot

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

David Byrne

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Peter King

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.

Mole

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Conrad Black

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Mignon McLaughlin

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Ogden Nash