Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?"

Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.

Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.