Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.