“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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.

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?