Confucius

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.