Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
You cannot run faster than a bullet.
