Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

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

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.