The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.