To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.