The first wealth is health.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Live, let live, and help live
Our best history is still poetry.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to prepare for the long haul, the rise and fall, and let neither define your sense of self.
