The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
Turn your doubts to question; turn your question to prayers; turn your prayers to God.
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.
You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea!
Enthusiasm is life.