"The hardest lessons to learn are those..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”

“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.”

“The White House is a bully pulpit.”

“You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.”

“Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.”

“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”

“Experts often possess more data than judgment.”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

“Smart leaders believe only half of what theyhear. Discerning leaders know which haveto believe.”