Be confident, not certain
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Events tend to recur in cycles.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.
A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
