“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.”

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

What America needs now is a drink.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

I want to live in a world where every person gives far more than they take.

Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

God will not be outdone in generosity.