Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because its a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to.
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Only poetry inspires poetry.
Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
