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.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.