A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.