When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

If it is 'anti-Semitism' to say that communism in the United States is Jewish, so be it; but to the unprejudiced mind it will look very much like Americanism. Communism all over the world, not in Russia only, is Jewish.