The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.