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When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones read more
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze read more
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end read more
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promise is most given when the least is said.