It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt