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

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.