The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

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

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.