Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

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.

My smile will always be broken, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to get to do what I get to do.

Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.