“When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?”

“That government is best which governs least.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

“The time is always right to do what's right.”