The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Hunger makes thief of any man.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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