Be confident, not certain
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Be an opener of doors.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
