Be confident, not certain
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
The soul’s emphasis is always right.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.
