One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Doing good for others should not be a pre-calculated motive driven by an agenda for future gains; it should be a natural response out of the basic need at hand.
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Never, never, never give in!
This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming ...
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, on...
Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Wars of the foolish are destructive, wars of the wise bring transformation.
You have the ultimate power to overcome poverty; poverty does not have the right to dictate how you should struggle.
Don't you feel that at this rate there isn't much in it? In what? In living at all, going on as we do. What do we get out of it? Take a day like this: you waken up in the morning and you're glad to be alive; it's a good enough day for anything, and y...
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
