Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.