And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.