Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.