"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."

"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."

"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."

"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."

"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"I have only one counsel for you - be master."

"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude"

"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."

"Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost."

"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."

"I think and that is all that I am."

"The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose."

"The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy."

"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."

"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."