Popular Quotes

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"The only journey is the one within."

"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."

"Yesterdays home runs don't win today's games."

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

"What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people."