Inspiration comes of working every day.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.