To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

When you face fear head on, it is no more!

When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.