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There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.

Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.

One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings

Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.

Desire is a manifestation of power.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.

Every person naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.

Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor.

You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.

Marshall's statement cannot be read to mean in any sense that a President is above the law

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

There is no short cut to the making of these ideals into glad realities.

Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.