The disciplined are free.
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.
How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
