Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.