Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.