The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
A book is the only immortality.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
You can only be free if I am free.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
To think is to differ.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.
