Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an read more

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents
are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, read more

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents
are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to
us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and
determination.

A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has
understanding among men and discipline in all action read more

A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has
understanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. He who controls read more

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but
he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.