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

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.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

If you haven't walked in someone else's shoes, it's difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.

Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate.