Talmund

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Youth should not be slandered. Boy nature and girl nature are less repressed and therefore more wholesome today than before. If they at times seem unimpressed by their elders, it is probably because we make a matter of authority what should be a matter of conference. These young people are new people sent to this scene by Destiny to take our places. They come with new visions to fulfill, new powers to exploit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

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

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

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.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.