“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

“See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.”

“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ”

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”

“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”

“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

“So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition.”

“I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.”

“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”

“The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“To be a man is...to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.”

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

“I count life just a stuff, to try the soul's strength on.”

“When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.”

“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.”

“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”

“You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?”