Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.