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Not all of us can do great things.

But we can do small things with great love.

My religion consists of a humble admiration

of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself

in the slight details we are able to perceive with

our frail and feeble mind.

Some people dream of success,

while other people get up

every morning and

make it happen.

My mother was my first country,

the first place I ever lived.

I know of no single formula for success.

But over the years,

I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

I don’t believe in regrets,

I believe in experiences.

You have to learn the

rules of the game.

And then you have to

play better than

anyone else.

Don't be afraid

To give up the good

To go for the great.

Liberty is the right of every human being.

Experience is the best teacher,

but sometimes it’s a harsh one.

Pretty much everything I've done depends on others.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.

He wants to reform the world.

When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world,

but he knows he can't.

Scouting is not a game;

it is a preparation for life.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,

always with the same person.

Find a place

Inside where there's joy,

And the joy will

Burn out the pain.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

No one has ever measured,

even poets,

how much a heart can hold.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart

into his work and done his best;

but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.