I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
A jug fills drop by drop.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.