Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
We must substitute courage for caution.
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
