“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.