Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception.

If someone is Jealous of you, That's a good sign! Keep up the good work.

Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.