Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
You always pass failure on the way to success.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.