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How vain it is to sit down to write when
you have not stood up to live.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds,
and I very rarely change it.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day,
you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

If the king loves music,
there is little wrong in the land.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Forgiveness is a funny thing.
It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Be generous,
be delicate,
and always pursue the prize.

Walking is man's best medicine.

The things we know best
are the things we haven't been taught.

The fairest thing in nature,
a flower,
still has its roots in earth.

One can dream so much better in a
room where there are pretty things.

Set all things in their own peculiar place,
and know that order is the greatest grace.

Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.

What is a soul?
It's like electricity -
we don't really know what it is,
but it's a force that can light a room.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation,
indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril;
but the new view must come,
the world must roll forward.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.

People everywhere confuse what they
read in newspapers with news.

I always entertain great hopes.

If you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

Pursue what catches your heart,
not what catches your eyes.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Laziness is nothing more than the
habit of resting before you get tired.

Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

We are learning, too,
that the love of beauty is one of
Nature's greatest healers.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness
rather than in its value.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

This time, like all times,
is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.

Either you run the day
or the day runs you.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.

If you cannot find peace within yourself,
you will never find it anywhere else.

Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity
causes us to become new creatures.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and
certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Success is the sum of small efforts -
repeated day in and day out.

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.

The best mirror is an old friend.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

When you change your thoughts,
remember to also change your world.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

No heirloom of humankind captures
the past as do art and language.

Do not wait for the last judgment.
It comes every day.

In America, the president reigns for four years,
and journalism governs forever and ever.

We didn't know how to run a business,
but we had dreams and talent.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

All governments suffer a recurring problem:
Power attracts pathological personalities.
It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised
for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are
thinking about yesterday all the time.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.

The problem with socialism is that you
eventually run out of other peoples' money.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less
than the journey-work of the stars.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The most powerful factors in the world
are clear ideas in the minds of energetic
men of good will.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.

When you have a dream,
you've got to grab it and never let go.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique,
they are great because of their passion.

It takes half your life before you discover
life is a do-it-yourself project.

Do something every day that you don't want to do;
this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit
of doing your duty without pain.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection.
Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

When you write things down,
they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

Everybody knows if you are too careful
you are so occupied in being careful that
you are sure to stumble over something.

You must not only aim right,
but draw the bow with all your might.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars
to change the world.

The most effective way to destroy people
is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!"
Then get busy and find out how to do it.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait
a single moment before starting to improve the world.

At the moment of truth,
there are either reasons or results.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering,
and take without forgetting.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -
how could anything be more fun?

When love and skill work together,
expect a masterpiece.

He only earns his freedom and existence
who daily conquers them anew.

There is no doubt that it is around the family
and the home that all the greatest virtues,
the most dominating virtues of human,
are created, strengthened and maintained.

What a wonderful thought it is
that some of the best days of our lives
haven’t even happened yet.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world,
journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

There is nothing in a caterpillar
that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art.

I favor the policy of economy,
not because I wish to save money,
but because I wish to save people.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together

Success can make you go one of two ways.
It can make you a prima donna -
or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities,
let the nice things come out.

These are the days that must happen to you.

It’s no use going back to yesterday,
because I was a different person then.

There's a lot of blood,
sweat and guts between
dreams and success.

The one lesson I have learned
is that there is no substitute
for paying attention.

To feel valued, to know,
even if only once in a while,
that you can do a job well is an
absolutely marvelous feeling.

You never know how a horse will pull
until you hook him to a heavy load.

To be interested solely in technique
would be a very superficial thing to me.

To improve is to change,
so to be perfect is to have changed often.

I did not realize I had made history
until I read it in the paper the next day.

The way I see it,
if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.

A man should always consider
how much he has more than he wants.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent
or commanding except when he listens to this whisper
which is heard by him alone.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Keep love in your heart.
A life without it is like a sunless garden
when the flowers are dead.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Heroes always have their scars.
Some you can see,
some you read about later on.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character
by his way of eating jellybeans.

I have decided to stick to love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.

It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Enjoyment is not a goal,
it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

We do not need magic to transform our world.
We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
We have the power to imagine better.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Concern for someone else was
a good remedy for taking the mind off
one's own troubles.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty,
the courage to take risks,
the discipline to tell the truth,
the capacity for sacrifice.
Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable;
they...

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

You may be deceived
if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you do not trust enough.

The world is not yet exhaused;
let me see something tomorrow which
I never saw before.

This time, like all times,
is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.

What the new year brings to you
will depend a great deal on what
you bring to the new year.

What the new year brings to you
will depend a great deal
on what you bring to the new year.

Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better person.

Luck is when an opportunity comes along
and you're prepared for it.

I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness
rather than in its value.

Peace on earth will come to stay,
when we live Christmas every day.

Just remember,
the true spirit of Christmas
lies in your heart.

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.

All good books have one thing in common
they are truer than if they had really happened.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I've always loved quiet people;
you never know if they are dancing in the daydream
or if they are carrying the weight of the world.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Be happy while you're living,
for you're a long time dead.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain
as does failing to hear and see it.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

You can’t save souls in an empty church.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

When you write things down,
they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

There is no limit to the amount of good
you can do if you don't care
who gets the credit.

Truth is incontrovertible.
Panic may resent it.
Ignorance may deride it.
Malice may distort it. But there it is.

Many of the great achievements of the world
were accomplished by tired and discouraged men
who kept on working.

The man of power is ruined by power,
the man of money by money,
the submissive man by subservience,
the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Loyalty, honor, and a willing heart.
I can ask no more than that.

To fulfill a dream,
to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor,
to be given the chance to create,
is the meat and potatoes of life.

The true secret of happiness lies in
taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The real question is not whether machines
think but whether men do.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Never give up on a dream
just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.
The time will pass anyway.

Pennies do not come from heaven.
They have to be earned here on earth.

It doesn't take much to see that the
problems of three little people don't
amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.

The more you practice the art of thankfulness,
the more you have to be thankful for.

A man does what he must -
in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Where there's hope, there's life.
It fills us with fresh courage and
makes us strong again.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do,
but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

If you know the Way broadly you will see it in everything

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;
the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is no such thing as a little freedom.
Either you are all free, or you are not free.

When someone is in your heart,
they're never truly gone.
They can come back to you,
even at unlikely times.

The search for truth is more
precious than its possession.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

The true soldier fights not because he
hates what is in front of him,
but because he loves what is behind him.

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.

Whoever saves one life,
saves the world entire.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Fear can hold you prisoner.
Hope can set you free.

I’m a greater believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.

The finest souls are those that have
the most variety and suppleness.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world
already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Life is a storm, my young friend.
You will bask in the sunlight one moment,
be shattered on the rocks the next.
What makes you a man is what you do
when that storm comes.

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.

In the business world,
the rearview mirror is always clearer
than the windshield.

It’s even harder to stay at the top
in sports than it is to get there.

No matter what accomplishments you make,
somebody helped you.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The less we deserve good fortune,
the more we hope for it.

Words are, of course,
the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The best effect of fine persons is felt
after we have left their presence.