Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

All mankind love a lover.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.