I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.