Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.