If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.