It is not wealth that makes us a great people, but how we use it.
In politics you have to do a lot of things you shouldn't do.
To educate a man interpersonally, not morally, is to educate a danger to society.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
If a man lives and works honestly, so that those who depend on him and are devoted to him live well because of him, such a man can be said to have succeeded in life.
To have a healthy body is wonderful, to have a clean soul is even better, but much more important, both for man and for the nation, is character - the totality of those merits that make a man a good man; and on the woman, a good woman.
It is much better to dare to do great deeds to achieve a brilliant triumph, even at the cost of trial and error, than to compare yourself with those weak souls who have never felt either joy or pain because they live in a gloomy sunset and know neither victory nor defeat.
We are given many things and much is asked of us. We have obligations to other people and even to ourselves; and we have no right, to despise these obligations.
We check our progress not by enriching those who already have much, but by being able to satisfy those who have very little.
Only he who does nothing is not wrong. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, be afraid to repeat mistakes.
No man is above the law, or under it; we don't need anyone's permission when we ask someone to obey the law.
Obedience to the law is an obligation, not a request.
Don't raise your voice, but prepare a big club, that way you will go far.
There is probably no character trait more important than firmness. The young man who wants to become a great man, who wants to leave his mark in this life, must be determined not only to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win, despite thousands of defeats and failures.
It is better for businessmen to do honest business than to give part of the profit to charity.
A completely uneducated man can only steal a freight car, while a university graduate can steal the whole railway.
The most important ingredient in the recipe for success is knowing how to get along with people.
I believe that a worse quality than wickedness of heart can only be weakness of brain.
I can govern the United States and direct the work of my daughter Alice, but I cannot do both at the same time.
To imagine is easier than to work, here is the source of the emergence of socialism (at least Russian socialism).
All educational institutions for women train nuns in successful cases, and prostitutes in unsuccessful cases. The notions of wife and mother do not cross their minds.
The universe is a courtship. And when the footsteps stop, the world will also cease to exist. Even now only silence is the twilight of the world.
Compassion is the part of small things. This is why I love the little things.
People are like flowers that wither. It's autumn and there's nothing left. How frightening this "no" is. How scary autumn is.
How do I relate to the younger generation? In no way. I am not thinking. I rarely think. But I always feel sorry for her. She is an orphan.
He who has not known misfortune does not know religion.
Love is a pain. He who is not sick of someone, does not love that someone either.
People who are in no hurry are God's people. People who do not set themselves any goal - they are also God's people.
The world lives with great ideals. The world in general is an ideal, as are the "circles" of history and the epicycle of the planets.
I am probably not in disagreement with the man, but only with the literature. It is terrible to disagree with the man, while with literature there is nothing special.