I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.