Nothing is black or white.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Difficulties break some men but make others.
The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
