It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I think government can't do much.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The best way to solve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.