1. The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

2. Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

3. Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

4. I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

5. More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

6. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

7. The only way round is through.

8. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

9. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn’t stop until you get to the office.

10. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

11. Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

12. A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

13. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

14. Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

15. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

16. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

17. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

18. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

19. It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

20. My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

21. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

22. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

23. The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

24. We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.