“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.”
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
Henry Ford
“Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.”
Charles M. Schulz
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Derek Bok
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Albert Einstein
“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
Mark Twain
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
Will Rogers
“Conscience is God present in man.”
Victor Hugo
“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
Harry S. Truman
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
Francis Bacon
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The doer alone learneth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln