Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board it can be safely brought to part.

Happiness is a state of mind.

Intuition and urge are two different things. You must learn to differentiate between the two.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.