A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are requiered for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual... Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude - the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are good in the chrysalis.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

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

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour.

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

There is no devil but fear.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Charity begins at home and usually stays there.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter work for him speak well of him stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position and when you are on the outside damn to your heart's content but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

The cure for grief is motion.

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

We work to become not to acquire.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.