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Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Good writing is clear thinking made visible.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts-that hope always triumphs over experience-that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

The impossible is often the untried.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.