When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.