Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.
Men make laws; women make manners.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Fire tries gold, misfortune men.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.