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If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Man should make an art of thinking.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Work is love made visible.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.