Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.
Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.
I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened. " But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am so I used that time to write. And I chose to write about food and wine. Along the way I carved out a role for myself.
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.
I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up. . . This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.
We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
Someone else's action should not determine your response.
The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Freedom (n. ): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.