Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

I should like to be a horse.