Glory

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.