The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Effective action is always unjust.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.