Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content