The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.