“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

We are the heirs of the ages.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you’ve got to careful and don’t overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop – nobody cares!