“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

With self discipline most anything is possible.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Patriotism means to stand by the country.

I don’t really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

You don’t have to have much to show how much you care.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Please stop making me think you care if you don’t.

The tigers have found me and I do not care.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Republicans didn’t care about the deficit when it came to tax breaks for billionaires. We cannot buy into their rhetoric about the deficit now.