“All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.”

When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

East or West Home is best.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him, men who were cleverer than himself

Do real and permanent good in this world.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn’t have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that’s great.

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.