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Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Who gossips to you will gossip about you.

If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

Patience is the key to paradise.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant..

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.

Man has responsibility, not power.

Man has responsibility, not power.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.