Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
