We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
Gerald Early
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Music should never be harmless.
Robbie Robertson
Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre
There is no god higher than truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.
The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Cowards can never be moral.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.
The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
James Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Ideas control the world.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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