Complaining gets in the way of gaining.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.