If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

It is almost impossible to live a life of failure if one learns to have faith in God and in oneself.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.