For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Parents are so excited about the first steps and words of their children, but then they spend the next 17 years telling them to sit down and shut up.

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, "Take only one, God is watching." Moving through the line, to the other end of the table, was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. One of the boys wrote a note, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples.".

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat.

But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.

There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.

With money I can buy things; with thinking I can understand things.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend..

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside