A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating...
Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.
Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's s...
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.