A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
