Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.