Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The present is a point just passed.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful.

A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.