“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

With self discipline most anything is possible.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

Jealousy is the most destructive emotion

When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life.

Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don’t care if it’s self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.