A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Freedom cannot be bestowed—it must be achieved.
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.
I believe more in the goodness of bad people than I do in the badness of good people.
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
Troubles grow by recounting them.
We are punished by our sins not for them.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.