Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.