“It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.”

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

We are the heirs of the ages.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Rock bottom is a crisis. And everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what ‘crisis’ means literally is ‘to sift’ – like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there’s treasure left over. That’s what crisis does.

I’m always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It’s my strong will that I’ve always had since I was a kid.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

I realized I didn’t just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What’s the point of gaining influence if you’re not going to use it?

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.