If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.