Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.