What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Words that weep, and tears that speak.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say, "Here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Oh, there you are."
Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.
Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Find a need and fill it.
Men do not fail; they stop trying.
There's none so blind as those who won't see.