If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

United we stand; divided we fall.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.