Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk we must act big.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.