If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.