You can't choose up sides on a round world.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a
verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a
verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to
what those events mean.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to
what those events mean.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a read more

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of
Responsibility on the west coast.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of
Responsibility on the west coast.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.