To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Give up trying to make me give up

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.