He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

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