“Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.”

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked.

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.