The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Once in the dream of a night, I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertion, we shall be able to preserve with your own strength.