The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is found...
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring...
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.