If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
You know what makes good hair for a snow man REAL hair. Don't ask me why, but it works.
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
There is no disinfectant like success.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.