Boards don't hit back.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
Humility is attentive patience.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.