"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."

"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."

"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

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

"Time is an illusion-to orators."

"Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization."

"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."

"Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before."

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

"We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't."

"Men are punished by their sins, not for them."

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

"Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain."

"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."

"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."

"Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

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

"Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent."

"We work to become not to acquire."

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."

"Art is not a thing it is a way."

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

"To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing."

"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."

"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans."

"There is no devil but fear."

"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 man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness."

"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."

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom."

"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."

"Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius."

"Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter work for him speak well of him stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position and when you are on the outside damn to your heart's content but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it."

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