To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth
Don’t think you’re on the right road, just because it’s a well-beaten path.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.