“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”

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.

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.

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.

Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting than being one.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.