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If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

By holding the representative responsible only to the people, and exempting him from all other influences, we elevate the character of the constituent and quicken his sense of responsibility to his country.