All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.