Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Systems die; instincts remain.
Change is the law of life.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.
The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.