"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

"There is no compulsion in religion."

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."