If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.