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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes to storage.

One can always point to a time, a choice, an act that set the tone for a life and changed a personal destiny.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, muddy,
ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess