When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Contentment is worth more than riches.
I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.