No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades, you couldn't possibly be cheating.
Life is hard. Next to what?
Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys it - an ideal of art, of science, or gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions.
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.