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

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

Everything I’ve set out to do, I’ve achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.