Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
I am what I am, so take me as I am!