He said gloomily, despairing, sadly: ‘How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.