History is more or less bunk.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Dont find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Teach children not to be gullible.
With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.
Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.
War is not a matter for the professional pacifist or militarist. It is for the unprofessional people. They finance and fight it, they bear its losses. Therefore, they should have the deciding voice concerning it. To do this, they require all the information upon which decisions are made. They should know in a difference, whether it is soluble by rational intelligence, or inevitable by force. Not once in a thousand instances would our people (this may not be true of all peoples, however) approve an offensive war. Never would they be lax in defensive action. For this is their country. However, most of their enemies are within it.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you
Wide awake and so confused.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.
Wealth is the product of a mans ability to think.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
