Quotes Temple

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the a-s.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford 1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Quand je n'ai pas de bleu, je mets du rouge. :

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.