There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Here is a promise Of summer to be.

Remember that failure is an event - not a person.

And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore.

Deeds are males, words females are.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.

In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take prozac to make it normal.

A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.