Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Don't worry about how inexperienced you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lord's help, you can become.

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.