The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?
You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.