Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above the little things.'

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

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