Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Never, never, never give up.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.