I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is-try to please everybody.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Dancing is the body made poetic.
Let us eat, and be merry.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.