Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

My father used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

Syllables govern the world.

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.

Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

There is always an easy solution to every human problem---neat, plausible, and wrong.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.

In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

History is past politics, and politics present history.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Tears are words that need to be written.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

War never slays a bad man in its course, But the good always!

I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

Never get married in the morning-you never know who you might meet that night.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

My past is everything I failed to be.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.

Time is an illusion.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Never laugh at live dragons.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

A job is a home to a homeless man.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.