Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.