Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
They can conquer who believe they can.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Each body has its art...
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 02:25 sati.