Horace Walpole

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.