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Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

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

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

Man should make an art of thinking.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

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.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

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

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

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

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

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

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

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.

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.