Quotations from Everywhere

(Part Twelve)

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Reality forms around a commitment.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms on life, you must accept the terms it offers.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

All Hollywood marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

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