The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.