Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?