Theodore Roosevelt

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.