A jug fills drop by drop.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Common sense is not so common.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.