If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.