Be patient with the boys -- you are dealing with soul-stuff.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.

Growth is often a painful process.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Prison is a socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

And these blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.