Quotes to inspire and reflect

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t Perceive And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returns, Was not spoken of the soul.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Study men, not historians.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.