When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving, and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

The influential man is the successful man whether he be rich or poor.

Justice is sweet and musical, but injustice is harsh and discordant.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence, the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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