“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

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.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I keep telling myself that I don’t miss you and that I don’t love you hoping that someday I will believe it.

I think it’s important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and everybody’s hot.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It’s in my blood.

Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.