It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

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111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.