I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe? Expediency asks the question- Is it politic? Vanity asks the question- Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; But one must take it because it is right.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize the ways people use other people...You don't want to waste the energy, so instead you learn tolerance, and compassion and love - and distance.
So it goes.
The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.