
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Being is the great explainer.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.