“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
“The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.”
“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”
“''Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?''”
“Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
“The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.”
“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”
“Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
“There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.”