One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.