If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Right reason is stronger than force.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.