Quotes to inspire and reflect

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things.

Anything more than the truth would be too much.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The only way round is through.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

If you seek yourself...you rob the lens of its transparency....

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . .

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. G. K.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. G. K.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high but oh More horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye.

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry the best words in the best order.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Man, needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.