Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Personality is lower than partiality.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.