The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.