The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.