On Love:
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
On Life:
Life is just one damned thing after another.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
On Happiness:
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.
On Success:
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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.
The secret of success is this there is no secret of success.
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that … the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. 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. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w
On Optimism:
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure.
On Fear:
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
On God:
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.