We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for
education is not education at all but ritual. read more

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for
education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are
being educated when we know it least.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, read more

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money
is tied up read more

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money
is tied up in it.