I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.