Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

The only lasting truth is change.