The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.