Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.