No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us