You are alive, so be fully alive.
A great man is always willing to be little.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
If men be good, government cannot be bad.
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
