“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn’t see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Your choices will define you; so make them the right ones.

If you wear black socks with white shoes then we can’t be friends.

Be with the people who have good intentions.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.