Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.