History is more or less bunk.
The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.
But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.
Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.
Nations are great as they are prosperous as they are industrious as they are just.
We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
There is nothing so stable as change.
You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Silence is so accurate.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
What is the one thing that I could do to help you?
Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?
We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
