Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.