Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.