“I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.”

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

Believe in yourself and go for it.

I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

I stand up for what I believe in, and a lot of the time that can be against people’s opinions.