To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.