Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.