“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I’m not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing’s going to change. I revel in the change.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don’t admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It’s the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.