It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
The cure for grief is motion.
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.