We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.