Service makes men competent.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Follow your inner voice to let people follow you.

Pursue your dream with great might.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.

Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.