Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
Golf is a good preoccupation, but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.
The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it.
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff-if it sneer, let it sneer.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
A word after a word after a word is power.