It is not the critic who counts

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.