Miscellaneous Quotes

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

All splendid things are rare.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

A stream cannot rise larger than its source.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.