Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.

You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.