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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving
anything in return.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving
anything in return.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but read more
It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. read more
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't
succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business
success...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully
within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much
about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against read more
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to
shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the
siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected read more
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.