Friendship is always a responsibility, never an opportunity.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.