Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Live truth instead of professing it.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Art is not a thing it is a way.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
best, being good & work
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
We work to become, not to acquire.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
men, technology & work
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
God, being good & work
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.