"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Put out the light."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."

"I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?"

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

"The United States of America has more monolingual experts on bilingual education than any other country in the world."

"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."

"You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do."