The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.

Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.

I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

I like the man who faces what he must With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer Who fights the daily battle without fear.

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

I am an i poet.

There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.