Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.