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

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.

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.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Father said conflict develops the character

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.