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The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car...a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Happiness is a journey...not a destination.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. .

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?".

You can be right or you can be happy.