"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."

"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."

"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."

"Live truth instead of professing it."

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal."

"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."

"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."

"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."

"Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."

"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."

"Men are only as great as they are kind."