Of two evils choose the least.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.

As long as you’re with you, that’s all that matters.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.