The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. -Nancy Kerrigan.

An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail!

My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

You can plant a dream.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Ninety percent of success is showing up.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.