Quotes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

A force, darker than jealousy; and stronger than love had begun to take hold.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

My parents taught me at a young age how to not hate people. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how rare this trait is.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.