No Sympathy for Work Worth Doing

 "No man needs sympathy because he has to work.  Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"What They Ought To Be"

 "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Autobiography and Other People

 "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."

— Philip Guedalla

"Keep Swinging"

 "My motto was always to keep swinging.  Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

— Hank Aaron

"To Regret Deeply"

 "Make the most of your regrets.  To regret deeply is to live afresh."

— Henry David Thoreau

Women's Power

 "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."

— Mary Wollstonecraft

"The Final Test of a Leader"

 "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."

— Walter Lippmann

"Shakespeare...Really Is Very Good" Despite...

 "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

— Robert Graves

An Immortal Civilization?

 "In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?"

— Gilbert Chesterton

"The Helping Hand of a Neighbor"

 "The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

— Hubert H. Humphrey

"Liberty As a Heritage of All Men"

 "Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.  Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."

— Abraham Lincoln

Stones Rolled In Your Way

"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it."

— Albert Schweitzer

"Good Nonsense"

“Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.” 

— Josh Billings

Obscure Talent

 "Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."

— Thomas Hardy

A Person's Best Effort

 "If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

— George S. Patton

Public Opinion About Thoughtful People

 "Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Politicians' Reputation

 "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

— Henry Kissinger

"Excess of Comfort"

 "Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

— Charles Dickens