The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Time discovers truth.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Not all those who wander are lost.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

The honor of a nation is its life.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.