It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
