Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

My dad was good with actions.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us and when certain conditions happen are triggered the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

But picketing - picketing for or against something and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis and pledged to do something about it if elected.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

In the US there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions called Democrats and Republicans which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.