He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.

If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

Meet your fears with faith.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.