There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I am not cruel —only truthful.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Once you have endured sufferings, you can give someone strength.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.