The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.

It is not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,

For discords make the sweetest airs.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.