The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Live truth instead of professing it.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.