Pastoral Resources

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.