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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Man should make an art of thinking.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

Work is love made visible.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.