The giving of love is an education in itself.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.