The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!

Before walking in someone else’s shoes, you have to remove your shoes first.

Every county has its sacred culture.

Now, tomorrow, and always.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.