We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

If you your lips would keep from slips,Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,And how and when and where.

If danger's a step away, safety's step away.

Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base.

To truly hear you must quiet the mind.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Busier than a three legged cat in a dry sand box.

when the cat's away, the mice will play.

Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use. Oh, the price were high That those shoes would buy, Those little blue unused shoes!

When luck runs out, sense runs in.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The world gels better every day--then worse again in the evening.