Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.