Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

This is life and imperfection is beautiful and don’t be afraid of that.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

I'm just happy to be working.

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Never trust a guy who plucks his eyebrows.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.