No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Don't worry about the ones who don't recognize your worth. Not everyone has an eye for talent.

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

I am not throwing away my shot.

The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.