Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
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Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
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We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the futur...
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted...
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I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
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Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
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