If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
All wealth is the product of labor.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.