People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
The actor can be compared to the soldier. The former dazzled by his triumphs, sighs continually for the struggles of stage- life; the latter filled with the glory he has acquired on the battlefield, cannot resign himself to peace.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success.
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo)
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to kn
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.