A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.