~ Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ~
~ Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ~
~ When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ~
~ Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one ~
~ Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute ~
~ Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will ~
~ The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. ~
~ With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~
~ For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. ~
~ Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. ~
~ Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ~
~ A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. ~
~ The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. ~
~ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~
~ We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~
~ Disappointment is often the salt of life. ~
~ First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ~
~ Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~
~ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~
~ An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ~
~ A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. ~
~ A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. ~
~ An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. ~
~ Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them. ~
~ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~
~ A victory won over self, is the only victory acceptable to God. ~
~ When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~
~ A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist ~
~ It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. ~
~ The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. ~
~ Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~
~ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~
~ There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ~
~ Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision. ~
~ Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. ~
~ The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul ~
~ The eyes are the mirror of the soul ~
~ The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ~
~ We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~
~ Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~
~ Dancers are the athletes of God. ~
~ Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~
~ Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. ~
~ There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~
~ Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ~
~ He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ~
~ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ~
~ The way of the world is meeting people through other people. ~
~ We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~
~ We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~
~ You will never win if you never begin. ~
~ The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win ~
~ The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win ~
~ Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. ~
~ You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~
~ Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow. ~
~ To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~
~ Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~
~ When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~
~ A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~
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