All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

A man is literally what he thinks.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.