I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
Achievement has no color.
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Life is hard, but so very beautiful.