“A new heart for a New Year, always!”

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.