Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

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

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.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.