Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."

If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.

He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Life is just one damn thing after another.

Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.