The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.