Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

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

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.