“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

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

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

I find ambition really attractive too – if someone’s good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.