If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.

You don't have to blow out anothers candle to make yours shine bright.

Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, Thy one brief parting pang may show: And withering thoughts for soul that dashes, From deep to deep, are but a death more slow.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."