I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
