“I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.”

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Achievement has no color.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee’s hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.