"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm."

"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

"If you give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance"

"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."

"There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted."

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."