The best and most BEAUTIFUL things in the world cannot be seen or EVEN TOUCHED - they must be FELT with the heart.

SUPPOSE you were an IDIOT, and suppose you were a MEMBER of CONGRESS; but I REPEAT myself.

If there is ANYTHING that a man can do WELL, I SAY let him do it. GIVE him a CHANCE.

With the NEW DAY comes new STRENGTH and new THOUGHTS.

LOGIC will GET you from A to B. IMAGINATION will TAKE you EVERYWHERE.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the DEEPEST valleys; LOOK on them as your own BELOVED SONS, and they will stand by you EVEN unto death.

INDEPENDENCE I have long considered as the GRAND blessing of life, the basis of every VIRTUE; and independence I will EVER secure by contracting my wants, though I were to LIVE on a barren heath.

Do not DWELL in the past, do not dream of the FUTURE, CONCENTRATE the mind on the present MOMENT.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in POLITICS is that you END up being GOVERNED by your inferiors.

The REWARD of one DUTY is the POWER to FULFILL ANOTHER.

EVERY HUMAN has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, INDEPENDENT will and creative imagination. These give US the ULTIMATE human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Jealousy is never SATISFIED with anything SHORT of an omniscience that WOULD detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

We must ACCEPT FINITE DISAPPOINTMENT, but NEVER lose infinite HOPE.

We can EASILY forgive a CHILD who is afraid of the DARK; the REAL tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I LIKE NONSENSE; it wakes up the BRAIN CELLS.