A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

No steps backward.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It's great for the first two weeks.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 It was his steadfast and unalterable conviction that for a man who has wrapped his will in God's will, put his life consciously into the stream of the divine Life, freed his soul from all personal ambitions, taken his life on trust as a divine gift -- that for such a man there is an over-ruling Providence which guards and guides him in every incident of his life, from the greatest to the least. He held that all annoyances, frustrations, disappointments, mishaps, discomforts, hardships, sorrows, pains, and even final disaster iteself, are simply God's way of teaching us lessons that we could never else learn. That circumstances do not matter, are nothing, but that the response of the spirit that meets them is everything; that there is no situation in human life, however apparently adverse, nor any human relationship, however apparently uncongenial, that cannot be made, if God be in the heart, into a thing of perfect joy; that, in order to attain this ultimate perfection, one must accept every experience and learn to love all persons... that the worth of life is is not to be measured by its results in achievement or success, but solely by the motives of the heart and the efforts of one's will.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.