We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.