I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.
The wealthy have nothing left except money.
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. . . If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face. . . We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
The destiny of the colored American. . . is the destiny of America.