"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely."

"I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it."

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

"Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave."

"I dwell in possibility..."

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

"You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed."

"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view."

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."

"Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes."

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."