The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Be who you are and be that well.

Be who you are and be that well.

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What read more

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."

Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.