The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little 606
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt 706
“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained” 720
“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals” 738
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 862
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson 696
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” 816
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally being interrupted by someone doing it. 759
