Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
When you are through changing, you are through.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
When you're through changing, you're through.
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. . . . The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. . . . It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed