Ambrose Bierce

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.