Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

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.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

It's not the critic that counts.

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

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.