The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Thoreau was an idiot.

Once bitten, totally smitten.

Someone is assigned to not only hear your heart's song but will strum your heart strings melodically. Listen with your heart.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.