[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

The more you do, the more you can do.