The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Live truth instead of professing it.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
There is no failure except the failure of trying.
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.