“One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.”
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
“To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor …
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”
“It’s the possibility that when you’re dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.”
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
“The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don’t screw around, and don’t smoke.”
“I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.”
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.”
“Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”
“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then …
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.”
“A bully is not reasonable – he is persuaded only by threats.”
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.”
“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
“It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of …
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”
“Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my …
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living.”
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. …
“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”
“It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.”
“Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.”
“Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.”
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, …
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
“Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights – then all will seem to reverse itself …
“You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.”
“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
“I’d rather work with someone who’s good at their job but doesn’t like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.”
“The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.”