The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.

If you cannot fix the situation may be the situation is meant to fix youu

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

With the opportunity we build today for a shared prosperity tomorrow, America will prevail. It begins with re-electing Barack Obama.

When we know better, we do better.