No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

We will either find a way, or make one.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.

There have always been two kinds of Christianity -- man's and Christ's. Does anyone today remember how the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion? It is said that he had a vision -- saw a cross in the sky with the inscription, "In this sign shalt thou conquer." He accepted the new faith promptly, because he thought it would defeat his enemies for him. That is man's Christianity, a means to earthly triumph. And in our present crisis we are appealing to it to defeat the Russians for us. We hear of the life-and-death struggle between Christianity and Communism, the necessity of "keeping God alive as a social force" -- as if our Lord could not survive a Soviet victory! It is a poor sort of faith that imagines Christ defeated by anything men can do.

It is the beginning of the end.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.