"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."

"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."

"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''"

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

"I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also"

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the"

"What I've asked for is essentially to have a strong mobile combat arms capability, ... That's probably about two brigades worth of combat power, if not more."

"In terms of overall strength of the insurgency, I would say it is the same as it was,"

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

"I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice."

"And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!"

"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night"

"But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will."

"But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon."

"Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray."

"Creep into thy narrow bed, / Creep, and let no more be said!"