When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay

Perhaps not, " said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...