To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end. . . THIS is achievement
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.
Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his views on leadership throughout his voluminous writings. He intended for future writers to study them with an eye toward action, as he himself had done of historic figures.