Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman (American Poet)
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
—William Ewart Gladstone (British Head of State)
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
—Theodore Roosevelt (American Head of State)
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
—Johann Gottfried Herder (German Lutheran Philosopher)
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won’t in the end affirm or deny anything.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
—Jean Anouilh