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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

To save time is to lengthen life.

Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.