Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted.
The penalty of leadership is loneliness.
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
It's only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do before.
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence, you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Money can't buy you friends but you do get a better class of enemies.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm, to the vessel in which it is stored, than to anything on which it is poured.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Many consider nature a vast chemical laboratory, in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses, to set all of nature in motion.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Life has its own hidden forces, which you can only discover by living.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Never be elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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