Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.