Archives - September 2011

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

There is power; there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That’s a power, that’s a power that must rule in every land.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Charm is a way of getting an answer yes without asking a clear question.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

You always pass failure on the way to death.

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

If success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.