A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.