A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.