“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Study the past if you would define the future.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.