Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

War – hard apprenticeship of freedom.