Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness

There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

Argument is not always truth.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.