I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Never give a child a sword.