'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
Edward Everett Hale

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
Edward Everett Hale

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Edward Everett Hale

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Edward Everett Hale

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
Edward Everett Hale

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale