The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat - just what might happen to any poor man's son.

I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so, in all cases with women.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.