It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much to stand up to our friends.
I've made some great mistakes in my life but you know they were honest mistakes.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork something about bibliography something about how to carry out library research and something about how to publish that research.
Are we still a country that takes risks that innovates that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.
When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good bad it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good more good would happen.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No I made a few mistakes.'
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.