I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

Doing is the great thing for if people resolutely do what is right they come in time to like doing it.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone I want something that turns me on inside.

Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

The planter the farmer the mechanic and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky the great ocean and the highest peak empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers they would continue to open their wallets.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people that we have a responsibility to find our common ground to seek it and to find it.