Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

We read the future by the past.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!

True love was about letting go. A daily choice. Knowing the worst about a person and sacrificing for them anyway. Choosing to love.

The very shadows seem to listen.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.