Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' “Doc, ' I said, '…you’re the problem!

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.