Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go but we are moving in the right direction.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience and has little to do with school or college.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

The private citizen beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion will soon see perhaps that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Imagine for yourself a character a model personality whose example you determine to follow in private as well as in public.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play even if they are closely intertwined and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is but I know I have a line.

Praying privately in churches I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now woven into this life.

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

I'm a private person too and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

The house has to please everyone contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.