No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?".

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Cancer is so limited, It cannot corrode faith, It cannot shatter hope,It cannot kill friendships, It cannot cripple love, It cannot destroy peace, It cannot silence courage, It cannot suppress memories, It cannot conquer the spirit.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.

The stronger always succeeds.

They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.