I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is or very soon will be void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
It's not the men in my life that count it's the life in my men.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.
To live a pure unselfish life one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.