Archives - March 2004

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Our lives improve only when we take chances --- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.