No person is important enough to make me angry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom read more

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.